Discover painter, draftsperson Johann Melchior Roos

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: Roos, Melchior
Rosa, Johann Melchior
Samstags-Roos
Supposedly he only worked on Saturdays or had his paintings sold on those days when his wife needed market money, hence the nickname of the 'Saturday Roos' (Grieb 2007)

Monogram: fat

Qualifications: painter, draftsperson

Nationality/school: German

Born: Heidelberg 1663
Jedding 1955: 1663 in Heidelberg; Thieme/Becker 1934: 1659 in Frankfurt am Main

Deceased: Braunschweig 1731
Jedding 1955: Braunschweig; Thieme/Becker 1934: Frankfurt am Main

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of the painter Johann Heinrich Roos (1631-1685). Married 1) in Heidelberg 25 May 1692 Justina Christina Langhans, daughter of court minister Johann Ludwig Langhans;father of eight children between 1693-1710 in Nuremburg and Heidelberg and 2) in Switzerlandin 1713 the widow of painter Joseph Werner II, father of two daughters.

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5 hits in RKDimages as artist
2 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
1 hit in RKDlibrary as illustrator
4 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist

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Biographical information

Education: Tekenacademie (Den Haag 1682-)

Active in

Heidelberg
Neurenberg
Den Haag (stad) 1684 - 1686
pupil of the Tekenacademie
Rome 1686 - 1690
collaboration with his brother Philip Peter Roos (1655/57-1706) Grieb 2007)
Frankfurt am Main 1693 - 1716
Paid taxes here as a sort of denizen. Presumably soon after 1716 he left Frankfurt and possibly went to Kassel (Grieb 2007)
Zwitserland 1713
Grieb 2007
Kassel (Hessen) 1717
Mainz
At an unknown point in time he became court painter to Lothar Franz von Schönborn, elector in Mainz and prince-bishop in Bamberg (Grieb 2007)
Neurenberg 1707 - 1731
a 3rd marriage (Grieb 2007)
Braunschweig 1731
In the tradition his laziness and his dissolute way of life are mentioned (Grieb 2007)

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Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Roos, Johann Heinrich

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: animal painting (genre), italianate, landscape (genre), portrait, still life, botanical representation

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 2 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Obreen 1877-1890 , vol. 4, p. 168
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 28 (1934), p. 579-580
Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 262 and 321
Jedding 1955
Bénézit 1976 , vol. 9, p. 77
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 264
The Illustrated Bartsch (1978-) , vol. 5 (1979), p. 370
Buijsen/Dumas et al. 1998 , p. 341
Grieb 2007

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Project: Gerson Digital : Germany

External links: this artist in Ecartico

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Creation date: 1991-11-20; Last modified date: 2023-02-09

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